1,046 search results for “history of the unit national” in the Student website
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Florian Schneider on China’s digital nationalism
In recent years, online platforms have been utilized more and more to spread Chinese nationalist discourse. In an interview posted on The Diplomat, director of the Leiden Asia Centre Florian Schneider gives his thoughts on how the digital environment has changed the way Chinese activists work.
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incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Bert Koenders new chairman of the Foreign Policy Advisory Council
Bert Koenders, professor of Peace, Law and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, has been appointed chairman of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV), or foreign policy.
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Berry DongelmansFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculteit Archeologie
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood KooriadathodiFaculty of Humanities
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Tycho van der HoogAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Presentation of the new United Nations Library platform (Online)
Virtual presentation
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Do you buy your partner chocolates and roses? Fascination for American holidays explained
Buying chocolates as a sign of love, getting the best deals on Black Friday and putting on a spooky costume for Halloween. In recent years, these holidays and traditions have taken off in the Netherlands, even though they originated on the other side of the ocean. Why are we so excited about American…
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Rik de RuiterFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Raoel NanhekhanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jan Michiel OttoFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martijn MosFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Tijm LanjouwFaculteit Archeologie
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Maria HadjigavrielFaculteit Archeologie
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Hilde WokerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Valentina AzzaràFaculteit Archeologie
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Roberto ArcieroFaculteit Archeologie